On Monday 05 August 2002 16:08 L, you wrote:
> I had good results with a Gigabyte GA-7VRXP. The LAN, Audio, USB (1.1 &
> 2.0), everything works. I did not try to use the Promise IDE RAID
> controller (the MB has 2 ATA controllers (=4 drives) and 2 separate RAID
> controllers).
>
> One note: I had to upgrade to the 2.5.26 kernel to exploit the
> high-speed ATA features. Under previous kernels, hdparm reported an
> unbuffered xfer rate of ~6.7 MB/sec. The 2.5.26 kernel consistently
> gets >21 MB/sec. My wife is doing digital video, and the old kernels
> dropped a lot of frames when importing from camcorder.
>
> --ronan
>
> PS: She has an Athlon 2100+ chip. Between the CPU cooler and the case
> and P/S fan, the machine is LOUD!
Ronan,
Thank you for the info, are they available locally or do I need to order one
over the 'net, and what cost is involved. Sounds like a nice MB.
-- Chuck Hast KP4DJT kp4djt@tampabay.rr.com To paraphrase my flight instructor; "the only dumb question is the one you DID NOT ask resulting in my going out and having to identify your bits and pieces in the midst of torn and twisted metal."
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